As might be the suggestion -- reported by BuzzFeed -- that both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are using targeted Facebook ads to insist that the border wallwill be built.

The joy of targeted Facebook ads is that only selected people see them. To the rest of the world, they don't exist, unless someone captures a screenshot and passes it on.

In this case, the ads from the Trump and Pence campaigns have similar wording and logic.

They claim to be dispelling rumors surrounding the potential (or actual) wall-building. In capital letters, the Trump ad exclaims: "WE WILL BUILD A WALL (NOT A FENCE) ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES TO STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND TO KEEP AMERICA SAFE."

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They also carry the insistence that the wall-building is "non-negotiable."

And then the ads ask for money. Both say: "Donate BIG today!" If you're going to have a big wall, you need big money behind it.

It's unclear whom the ads targeted. Neither the Trump nor the Pence camps immediately responded to a request for comment.

Some, though, might observe that this method closely follows that used by nefarious Russians during the election. Facebook has not allowed the world to see the ads that the Russians ran, but has reportedly handed details over to government-appointed investigators led by Robert Mueller.

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And so we wait to see whether the wall will be built, is being built or even will never be built.

It's wise, though, to turn to professionals to see what they think. Well, bookmaker Paddy Power offers odds of 5-6 that Trump will begin building a wall in 2017.

It also offers odds of 25-1 that Trump will announce plans to open a hotel in Mexico in 2017.